Harvester.



Patented Jan. '28, |9021 E. nommv.

HARVESTER.

(Application filed June 3', 1901.

(No Model.)

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EZRA'DOMINY, OF FREDERICK, SOUTH DAKOTA.

HARVEVSTER.

SPECIFICATION fogpart of Letters Patent No. 691,846, dated January as, 1902.

' Application filedll'nne 3,1901. Serial No. 63,004. (No modeL).

' To ctZZ whom it may concern:

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Be it known'that I, EZRA DOMINY, a resident of Frederick, in the county of Brown and State of South Dakota, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Harvesters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. 7

Myinvention relates to an improvement in harvesters,and more particularly to that class of harvesters known as headers, the object of theinvention being to provide animproved device of this character wherein the use of apron or other mechanical conveyers for the grain will be dispensed with.

A further object is to provide an improved harvester in which an air current or blast is employed for conveying the heads of the grain after being cut.

With these objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view illustrating my improvements, and Fig. 2 is a view in section of the same.

1 represents the ordinary platform or frame of a harvester supported on wheels 2 and carrying my improvements, as will now be explained.

A knife or cutter 3 is supported at the forward end of frame 1 and adapted to reciprocate in the forward end ofa grain-receiver 3, which latter comprises a fiat casing or tube gradually tapering upward and contracted or growing smaller and curving to one side of the frame and terminating in a contracteddischarge-port 4 at one side of the frame to deposit the grain into a suitable receptacle or wagon driven beside the harvester for the purpose. The upperor top wall of the casing 3 extends beyond the lower wall and is connected to a cylindrical fan-chamber 5, having its blast-discharge opening 6 in alinement with the chamber 3. A shaft 7 is revolubly mounted in fan-chamber 5 and carries any number of fan-blades 8 and projects at one end through A pulley 9 is secured on the projecting end of shaft 7 and 10 on the main axle or made integral with the bull-wheel of the harvester, and the knife or cutter 3? is provided with a rod 11, projectconnected by a belt or strap 7 with a pulley Y ing through one side of easing 3, and connectv I ed by suitable operating mechanism with, said bull-wheel for reciprocating thecutter.

In operation the cylindrical fan-chamber 5 first strikes the upper ends of the grain and forces them downward to permit the chamher to pass over, when they spring up into out of order, are expensive, and are liable to become choked by the accumulation of grain, while with my improvements the air-blast not only forces the grain rapidly through the receiver, but also insures all the grain being cut, as it forces the same against the cutter and prevents its escape.

Various slight changes might be resorted to in the general form and arrangement of the several parts described without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, and hence I would have it understood that I do not wish to limit myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a harvester, thecombination with a frame, of a cutter, a tubular grain-receiver on the frame having a wide forward end dis posed above the cutter and terminating at its rear end in a lateral discharge-spout, and a fan in the wide end of the tubular receiver in advance of the cutter.

2. In a harvester, the combination with a supported on the frame, widest at its forward supporting-frame, of a tubular grain-receiver end and tapering slightly upward to and proi In testimony whereof I have signed this vided with it contracted discharge end which I specification in the presence of two subserib- IO projects to one side of the frame, a cutter in ing witnesses. the inlet end of the receiver, a fan-chamher in front of the cutter, a fun in said chamber l and means for operating the fan to discharge \Vitnesses a blast of air against the cutter and through JOHN A. FYLPAA, the receiver. THOS. H. FYLPAA.

EZRA DOMINY. 

